Human Factors

Catalog description

Section information text: Human factors engineering aims to improve human interaction with systems by enhancing safety (reducing the risk of injury), performance (increasing productivity), and satisfaction (acceptance, comfort). Students will learn and be able to identify critical human factors in a system that affect safety, performance, and satisfaction. Some topics include the basic knowledge of human sensory mechanism (visual, auditory, tactile), cognition (perception, attention, information processing, memory, learning), and macrocognition (levels of behavior, decision making, situation awareness), their capabilities and limitations in interacting with products and systems.